1885年和1900~1901年曾二度訪問日本,1885年訪日時曾參加鹿鳴館的派對,以當時的見聞寫下「江戶的舞會」(收錄在短編集『秋天的日本』),給芥川龍之介的短編小說『舞會』帶來靈感。1900年八國聯軍進佔北京時,作爲海軍上尉的他亦來到北京,曾記述來京見聞,成《在北京最後的日子》(Les derniers jours de Pékin)。
Edmund Gosse. French Profiles. New York : Dodd, Mead and company. 1905. Collected reviews of Loti's works, by literary critic Edmund Gosse. From Internet Archive.
Henry James, ed. Impressions. Westminster : A. Constable and Co. 1898. Introduction by Henry James about Loti's life and works. From Internet Archive.
Winifred (Stephens) Whale. French Novelists of To-day. London : John Lane; New York, John Lane company. 1908; see chapter "Pierre Loti", biography and literary survey. From Internet Archive.
Easter Island Foundation sells an English translation of Loti's account of his visit to Easter Island, along with those of Eugène Eyraud, Hippolyte Roussel and Alphonse Pinart, under the title Early Visitors to Easter Island 1864–1877.